Friday, October 11, 1968 maroon ano gold Page 3 Apps Trounce Elon 70To26 Trover heisley uses educated toe for Christians Fumbles Give AppS Two Quick Scores Ua Grover Heisley, Elon’s freshman kicking specialist from Richmond, Va., is pictured above as he puts a toe to the football. Bruce McFerren, also an Elon freshman from Newport News, is shown holding the football for Heisley to put a toe to the pigskin, and this twosome teamed to produce twelve consecutive points after touchdown in Elon’s first two games a- gainst Concord and Guilford, The smaller picture, at the right above, shows the special kicking toe which Heisley uses as he boots the ball through the up rights for points after touchdown and field goals. Elon Gridders Show Improved Statistics The Elon Christians, while winning both of their first two games with Concord and Guilford this fall, showed a definite im provement over their sta tistical marks set in the first two games of the 1967 season. These 1968 Christians have scored 87 points this year in two games, com pared with 41 in the first two tilts a year ago,and they have held the oppo sition to 22 points, com pared with 30 points in two games last fall. The Christian offen sive unit has moved the ball for 777 yards in to tal offense in these first two games this fall, an average of 388.5 yards per game, compared with a two-game total offense last fall of 549 yards. This represented an im-. provement of better than 125 yards per game. There is not much difference in the defen- sive totals for the two seasons. The Christians allowed the opposition 679 yards in the first two games last fall compared with 660 yards in com bined running and pass- in two tilts this sea son, an improvement of about 10 yards per game. Elon Football Elon 66, Concord 12, Elon 21, Guilford, 10, (Remaining Games) Oct. 5 — Appalachian,A„ Oct. 12 - Presbyterian A, Oct. 19 - C. Newman, H, Oct. 26 - Catawba, H. Nov. 2 - W. Carolina, A. Nov. 9 - Newberry, H Nov. 16 — L. Rhyne, H. Heisley Breaks Old Elon Kicking Marks The improved offensive total for the Christians this year has been in the aerial attack, for Elon has completed 29 of 43 passes this fall for a to tal of 503 yards, com pared with 16 completions in 44 attempts last fall for a two-game total of 253 yards. The Elon punting also shows a slightly better mark, with Christian kickers booting for an av erage of 39.0 yards in this year’s two openers, com pared with an average ot 38.4 yards per kick at the same time last fall. Elon backs have run back kicks for a total of 201 yards in two games this fall, compared with 84 yards in two games last fall. Kickoff returns have been less this fall than a year ago, tians have returned only four kickoffs this year compared with nine in the two openers last fall. The individual leaders in the statistics show Burgin Beale as t°P man in passing and in total offense with 451 yards in passijig and 468 yards in combinedpass ing and rushing, Emery Moore as the toP u, rushing- with 166 yards, It’s not often that a freshman football play er wins heroism and ac claim from the Elon Col lege student body, but such was the fortune of Grover Heisley 111, an Elon first-year gridder from Richmond, Va. His good fortune came when he used his educated toe for a total of 12 points in Elon’s 66 to 12 vic tory over the Concord College Lions from West Virginia in the very first grid game of the 1968 season. Never in all of Elon’s more than half a century of Elon football history had any Christian grid der booted more than six extra points after touch down. Pete Williams,one of Elon’s immortals of the gridiron, did it against Apprentice School back in 1930, and chubby Bobby Ferrell, duplicated that six-point performance a- gainst Frederick in 1964, In each of those gamss Pete Williams and Bobby Ferrell kicked six place ments in seven ties after touchdowns, but Grover Heisley booted nine in nine tries against Con cord in the 1968 season- opener tobreakboth Will iams’ and Ferrell’s rec ords wide open. Just to add to his very fine booting record, Heis ley also kicked a field goal from the 30-yard line to run his total for a single game to 12 points, which also represented a one-game record for Elon football. As far as the Elon freshman kicking spe cialist looks, he appears as if he came down from a much higher league. If his toe antics continue through four seasons of Elon football he can look forward to going into an even higher league, per haps into the NFL, where Lou Groza and his rivals have set some pretty fan tastic records. Young Grover Heisley III once scored 21 points a game for the colle- Richard McGeorge as the top passreceiver with 13 catches for 206 yards, Ronnie O’Brien as the top kick return man and Jackie Greene as the top punter. giate Pre of Richmond, Va., two field goals and fifteen extra points. The score of that game made the Elon 66 to 12 victory over Concord look like a close game. Young Heisley credits his father, Grover Heis ley 11, for much of his talent. Grover Two has a Ph. D. in chemistry,and he designed the special shoe that Grover Three uses to boot the football. "Most kickers,” Grov er Three explains, “'use a special shoe, some with a steel plate, almost all with a square toe. My shoe does not have a plate, but the sole is extended about a quarter inch be yond the toe. Plastic wood is on the extension.” “As long as 1 hit the ball with that sole-plastic wood extension slightly below center, 1 will nev er miss. If I should hap pen to hit the ball with the top of the shoe in stead of the extension, a miss will more than like ly occur.” "The holder,” he went on, “is very important. Bruce McFerreh, of Newport News, holds for me here at Elon, and he does a great job, 1 don’t like to change holders when 1 get a goodone. The farther 1 wanter to kick a ball, the more he slants it, so that the ball goes higher and for more dis tance, I kick stiff-legged, which is different from most kickers,and I prac tice a lot too,” Coach Red Wilson, who directs The Elon grid for tunes, says that he has his entire team rush to ward Grover Heisley when he is practicing, but Heisley calmly boots them through the up rights. Heisley also has his kick off duties for the Elon Christians, and he has put over half the kick offs into the end zone, which means that the op position is strictly nuts when it tries to run such kickoffs back. Both Heisley and Coach Wilson feel that he will be able to hit a big per centage of points after TD’s and that he will be able to kick field goals for Elon up to 50 yards in the next few years. After striking for three quick touchdowns in the first period, two of them coming when Elon fum bled kickoffs at the goal line, the Appalachian Mountaineers unleashed a literal mountain ava lanche of TD’s and ex tra points to trample the seemingly dazed Elon Christians 70 to 26 at Boone last Saturday night. The first two App scores came before the game was one minute old, both following Elon fum bles of kickoffs, and they came on a sustained drive to give Appalachian a 21- 0 lead after one quarter. Elon rallied then for a TD on a sustained drive that cut the count to 21- 6. Another Mountie score ran the App margin to 28-6, but this was fol lowed by two quick Elon TDS, both of passes from Burgin Beale to Mc George for one and to O’Brien for the other. Elon tries for extra points failed, and the Mounties led 28-18, but Appalachian pulled two other scores from the hat before half-time to run the count to 42-18 at the intermission break. Soon after the half,Elon launched its final scoring thrust of the night, with Beale tossing a 50-yard scoring pass to Jim Wall er and following with a 2-point toss to Larry Holder to cut the margin to 42-26. However, that was the Elon score for the night, and the Apps continued to roll for four other TD’s to total 70 points, the highest score ever made against a Christian ele ven in all history. Figure Facts Elon ASU 15 First Downs 24 116 Yds. Gain Rush. 366 31 Yds. Lost Rush. 10 85 Net Yards Rush. 356 37 Passes Attempt. 23 16 Passes Complet. 12 259 Yds. Gain. Pass. 201 344 Total Yds. Off, 557 1 Opp. Passes Interc. 4 22 Runback Int. Pass. 49 8 Number Punts 7 42.5 Ave. Yds. Punts 49.4 175 Runback All Kicks 84 2 Fumbles Lost 1 35 Yds. Penalized 72 SCORE BY PERIODS: Elon 6 12 8 0 — 26 ASU 21 21 14 14 — 70 Elon Touchdowns — Sharpe (7-run), Mc George (lO-pass from Beale), Waller (50-pass from Beale), O’Brien (5- pass from Beale). Extra Points — Holder 2 (pass from Beale). Appalachian Touchdowns — Kerr 3 (33-run, 8-run, 14-pass from Murphy); Agle 2- (25-pass from Murphy, 14-pass from Murphy), Roten 2 (5-run, 1-run), Murphy (3-run), Neeld (18 pass interception, Deskins (41-run). Extra Points — Wood 10 (kicks).

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